[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#873866: Bug#873866: tophat: Please add arm64

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Wookey,

On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 06:11:04PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> On 2017-09-04 14:09 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> 
> > Well, technically it might be correct, but I doubt that there is a
> > working pipeline involving tophat, bowtie and friends on non-amd64
> > architectures.
> 
> Well. I just built it, and installed it (along with bowtie). How do I
> test if it works? It seems that I need some kind of input file(s). I
> don't know anything about DNA sequencing.

Despite I'm working in the Debian Med team I also don't know much about
DNA sequencing. ;-)  To enable testing our packages I've mentored GSoC
and outreachy students to write autopkgtests and we usually install a
file /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/README.test to explain how to run this test
also on the current machine.  I tried to verify this and realised that
the test is currently broken.  Please give us some time to

  a) upgrade bowtie to the latest version (there is some issue[1])
  b) fix the test

I'm just busy installing a pinebook[2] and I'll use bowtie as a first
test case on this machine (once I'll get my graphics back which I lost
after Jessie -> Stretch upgrade due to non-free / not-yet-packaged
driver)
 
> In general Debian tries to build software for all architectures where
> it works. This makes it easy for users to use it on whatever hardware
> they have. Upstreams may not understand that architectures other than
> x86 exist, but that's not a very good reason in itself for not
> building stuff. ppc64el has very fast hardware for example.

I think we understood this in principle and your effort is highly
respected.

Kind regards

       Andreas.


[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2017/09/msg00014.html
[2] https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707

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